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Hello everyone!! To make your dining area look beautiful and have comfortable lighting make sure you have overhead chandelier mount over your dining table. You can add accent lighting to your room by adding additional floor lamps or table lamps. If you want to give an entirely different look to your room on a budget, place your table diagonally angled in the room. While you are hosting a romantic or formal dinner, you will definitely need mood lighting. Also you can have lighting fixture with dim lights.

If you would like to use candle lights, decorative candle holders can be fitted on the dining room walls and tables. Fancy chandelier may cost somewhere from $100 to several thousand dollars. You can get overall illumination in large proportion when you get chandelier of 200 to 400 watts. While installing the fixture, make sure you have thirty inches space above the table for ample headroom. Select the diameter of the fixture to be twelve inches lesser than the overall width of the table.

You can add recessed down lights or wall mounts to get more sparkle and accent. Also you may have dimmer light switches for chandelier. Formal lighting fixtures can be enhanced by adding flame shaped bulbs. For contemporary lighting fixtures tubular or globe bulbs can be added. Clear bulbs with glass shades, crystal or other transparent fixtures can be used. So make your home decorative and beautiful with these tips.